• Approximate height: 20cm (8 inches) 
• Recommended water depth over pot: 0 - 10cm (0 - 4 inches)
• Flowering time: May to August
• Flower colour: Blue
• Supplied bare root - for best results we recommend potting on using a 1 litre pot

This fast-growing British native species is useful as an edging plant, producing glossy green trailing foliage throughout the year, and sending up tiny blue flowers all summer long. The waxy leaves are evergreen and last through into the winter, surviving frosts and ice and making it one of the few native plants to give winter interest to the pond. The plant's strength is always in its new stems, so if your plant needs to be tidied, it is best to cut off and re-plant the outer stems, which are the most vigorous.

Because the stems of Water Speedwell like to spread out and trail, this makes it a difficult plant to produce commercially in a pot - as the stems lay down the sides of the pot it quickly acquires a loose and untidy appearance which is at odds with the public's idea of what a nursery plant should look like. Because of this, we have now started doing it as a bare-root plant only.

If designing a planting scheme, we recommend approximately 2 Veronica beccabunga plants per square foot of ground, or 1 plant per linear foot of pond edge. Read more here on how to .